The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-11 00:00:00

1 .1 M ~, MAIM An z i VED-5 Gotienbutgli, 3 Dublin, rWaterford. PRICE OF' STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWIILVZ O'CLOCK. • COpSOIS 64/I Op. 1 OlTlllitirTl 211 1 Red. Ann. 6j Tf E ►7 UN. soLEM saUts lALstat AUDEAT? • , L O . N D MONDAY; JANUARY 11 j . : 1868". THE Proserpine Frigate arrived at Yarmouth on Sal urd'ay last, having on board Lord L. Gown'a, our late Minister to the Conrtof St. Peteisburgh, Sii S.' Sic Alar, Mr. GlatucKE, and others.' lord L. ~; Go .v tat was detained a considerable time at Goto. tenburgh.by contrary winds, And had the honour of dining several times with his Swedish Majesty, in company with Lord lieTcuttisoN, who Was also at that place. We fi:el great. pleasure in being able to state, that.there is Ito foundation for the' apprehenr biota which were entertained for the safety of Lore! HUTCHINSoN and his brother : they arrived at Yar mouth On Saturday evening in the . /3ellet‘eSloop . of War. Tins morning five Gottenburgli Mails arrived. Tho Intelligence which they contain is not very itn- Oortant. The following are the. mcist.:interesting articles which they bring Letters from Vienna state, that the Austriin Ports are not yet shUt against the ,English, but that this 'measure .is likely to be soon adopted. The . above Leiters add, that the importation OfEnglish-Manu fa6lures is stri6,lly prohibited throughout the—Austrian Wo understand that the French Civil Code, called !' Code de Napoleon," is also to be introduced in the Huse Towns. " The King and Queen of Westplittlia arrivcd in Snitgardt the 2,9 th of fa* November. l'he Duchy of Mecklenburgh is now evacuated by the French Troops, with the exception of Ito:lock, which has still a French Garrison,. to prevent English • commodities from,being imported: Extrad of Le ter (rum Gotten'uurall -dated De cen)ber cl, 1807. "' Observing in some late English Newspapers ) , tliat absbra repcirts have been circulated in London, revokition having taken place in Sweden, and otheri Of a like,natitte, I am hail ‘ py to inform you that `,the very reverse is the case,. for . : during the xi/4's visit here last week, his condescension and &attention to every rank of his subjeals, were such as g.thled him the hearti of all; his popularity never was greater, and it is hoped by the firmness-which he ever maintains, .and by his wisdom, this country' will tbr soniettime be able to withstand the torrent which'nearly overwhelms the whole of the Conti-, ,- , nett!. " . •, ST. PETOtstitIRGIT, Nov: Am 7 hassador, Lord Gowint. set out On his return' yes . terday : he goes by the ,way of Sweden. The Se cretary of the English f.e..gation is obliged. to remain here on account of, illness. • Among the . names of the persons about to , leave Russia, in the bourt Ga zette, ,are those Of. the greater part the English Merchants. • . EV an Invetial Ukase; an 'Office of Liqkiii_itiOn is to be erettett to adjust the reciprocal claims of 11(1' ;lin and English stthjeas. `" °l ° lll4l conituoclitico, %ince the apFearance of the Mclaration *agilinit England, liav6" exorbitantly r, e ) in price. , The (fly after the Decl uation ligiimt Englima was published twenty Enklit,b Merchant Ye:ios frog) Crongtadt.—( CorrespnmOti.:Dtc. Nov.. 30.—in the place of the French Resident, M.VpInFsT PE NUNGSI9I,',AS,VIO 13 ene .from hence M..SERItA is appointed French Itesidc.nt to die Government , of 'Warsaw, and to dio Free linpeiial City of 13ktutzic , Ti rival M. • 130tricotttO, Minister to the Court •of Saxony, will contina thCbasioeis., • NiEmnr., Nov. 18;-...two Englistl Ships lately at: t:opteti to enter this ,Port, but. were ,not Buffered, the 'prohibition of all intercourse wit4Englanci being very Aridly enforced. , RIGA, Nov. 14.--"Dhis morning an gnjbargoi.w.as laid on'Ml Eo:glisli - Ships in this liarbour,t:autl a se= questration English proprty ; bht 'there are o ily two Ships olthrit. Nation here, the othocshav ing sailed yeitertt ;I triany.pf however ) may probably iu their,passagio4all into the bonds of the Danes. Sr. I'hil:l43BU MGM, Noy. the Eng,' li . 11 have sit at Liberty the •Lubee. Ships., they had it has not brew judged proper to suffer il.e L-ihec,Ships,. which are ,lying -ready tosaifat'Croti-si.idt„. to put to sea; as kilo 11cclaratioil published. by our Government on the 7th, may probablyinduce England to take othermeasures. Buttst_Au, Nov. t3il.---A Courier; ivho arrived yea terday,- ha's brought order's from P4atis to the BaVti riv Lieutenant-General (Baron Witent) for the • Vitale of the Bavarian troops, amounting to 16,000 men, to.begin their march back. They will break up the day after to-morrow (the3oth) and proceed on their march through Saxony, by the way .0t Dresden, in five columns. STOCKHOLM, CASTLE, DEC: its.-. ! Their Majesties the Kmo and QuEEN, and her Royal Highness Princess Sorat A • WILIIELMINA, who set out froiri GottenbUrgh fer StO&Wm on'ilie't sth instant, ar rived 'here yesterday from Her Majesty' the Queen and the Princess took thiiS morning their _ . • departure for. Stockholno, ,but the King,and part of the Royal retinue' still'rernains in this:place. . Lieutenant WA It EN BE of the Swedish Navy, de livered, as early as the 3d .and sth of. last Oetoher, 02,freneh Prisoners, taken by the Swedes during . the last campaign, in Pomerania, to the First Aid-de- Camp of General, GRANDJEAN, who promised that an equal : pumber of , Swedish Prisoners, should be retorned - ; but this promise has not yet been fulfilled. Grizetfr, D e c. 23.) CART..sIiAm, DEG. 14..--;The Apollo, GRIMSIII,- of Hull, from St. Petersburgh, having on board the effeets of the English Minister, Lord GOWER, has been chas ed into this port by a Danish Privateer. The dpollo . will it is thoUght.obtain a safe pass from the , Danish Government. Every. exertion is .making -by , the Danes to equip Gcn-boats.an4.light.Vissels ; of thA former twenty are "said to be ready for sea, and as. many more on the 'stocks. BANKS or TUE MAINE, DEc. 5.--Some public Journals state, that the 'report has been generally circulated for some days past,-that a part of the con scription of 180 D will be moils diately raised by anticipation. are .assured *that similar to the lasi year,.a Senatus Consultutu will be issued, by which io,oito youths of this class will be placed at the disposal of . Goernment; namely, a part for the present army; and a part for the reserve.; al though peace is established on the Continent, never theless the great extent o 1 country occupietl'hY the, French ArMies requires a.'reinforcetnent of fresh troops. , (L'AMeille du Nord.) • , - • VinoNt, Nov: fe, ~= I'he nuMber of French troops winch , are still in Dalmatia; Titria, and, the' . Venetian States, is estitn.ated. at 7 o,ouo . These. will be reinforced by 30,000 French and Italiansi , who are coining from the ,Grand . . GENOA, Nov. t Wt dnciday A a brisk a: 2 tion was fought under otii.wallS, cm tbe'side of the Levant the enemy had: Colleded; in order to make a landing and possess himself of a bridge; the . sonnd . o . r• thii Generale ' tittd . that O. :Cannon drew" el the city to' theframparts—illiick4trioke enveloped the . combatants- , - , but the - tiring was distinctly heard on the Co.lines &Allan°, the banks of the: sea, and in the r a light wind dispersed the smoke, and: we beheld ; hl ' with the greatest interest all the mall mimes of th,e combatants ; a moment after, the. Enemy, Compelled to fly, entered, into the Water. op t o his ;waist, our soldiers purstied - him with the, bayonet'in his and with cuts of the sabre; thy made seroral Companies Prisoners. GOTTENBUIGGLI, DEC. 14.—The king, Queen, and Attend4nts, arriyed . ,here on, Saturday evening from Helsinburgh, and were. received with every demonstration of joy. 'The town was illuminated when • their Majesties arrived,' which was: beaveen fine and six o'clock in the evening. Thesaine day. the , PorcupineJirigale arrived here from England, for the' purpose of taking over Lord G. L, GOWEE and. Suite. A grand Bpi' was given List night in . honour of their 'MAJES s TIES, at which altoost all 'tlie Jistiu gyi4he4 iraveileri here were preieht, DEC. 15.—The King and Queen have just Set, 'Off for Stockholm : the guns are now firing. Ova Friends, peihaps, noticed, with some cum- . tions of surprise ; a long and laboured diatribe which appeared in the"./Ifui niv Chronicle of Wednesday , last , It contained, as they may have seen, a very furious attack,on the , poetical talents of Lord STRANG FORD and Mr.'CANtgrtm, together with some grave iefled ion son youth, and, on the expediency of pay. ing a Minister to a Foreign State for residing at borne, `and, when his. proper concerns have been successfully transated by others, of continuing his appointments, in justice to his extraordinary deserts! Although these subjeas; wore particularly thi latter, be of some' importance, yet we are assured, by the Writer of the article in question, that he would have passed them inrsilence, but for a call of' a very bingular..nature. " We owe it," says he, to the Country to wake public ;h6 statement w hi c h TitriTn 1(1S E .)11TED 1110 M, us, and are not wi►hout hopes,that the public voice may yet- be raised to chastise Ministers for their pernicious eon thia itt this instance, if it should fail to.make them review and abandon it." Trtunt, says the wise man, is strong; we can, therefore, easily forgimthose who yield to her vio lence. the present cue, however, she is calum niated : wg .arp convinced, by internal evidence,. tliat she never - " extorted" one syllable from th e writer; nay more, that she never saw Bien ! There tire two phantotps, who delight to take upon them 'her name and appearance; they are called Interest, and FaCtion, and by clearer eyes and nicer judge merit than the Morning Chronicle was ever supposed to posspss, haVe been 'frequently mistaken for her. One of these (our Madera will probably find which, before we have done), beyond all controversy, ex torted from this unhappy man his ridiculous as . sertion. No violence has been - offered to us; yet, as we have something material. to urge on the topics men tioned above, we cheerfully take. the opportunity alibided by our unknown opponent, of doing it here.' We, like- him, 'are " not without hopes that . the public voice may yet , be 'raised"—whether " to chastise Minisiers for' their pernicious conduti, in this instance," or to give them the applause wiiich their integrityand wisdom so loudly, demand, is now to be decided. To render this decision somewhat more easy and at the satne jime more consonant to justice, - we shall put that Public in , possession of a few particulars, with which perhaps they are but partially or in dNtinetly acquainted. Our knowledge of political, transa6tivas is not indeed altogether so extensive as we could wish it ; but We.aliall advance nothing but faEts ;'the little we have to produce may possibly bethought worthy of attention. ' 110 charge against Lord STRANGFORD is very direst and distressing. —" Somewhat mere than four y ear s ago he wrote Poems about roses and blue eye; !! !" These. Poems (for we are compelled to plead'guilty) were, we believe, either translated or imitated ftom CAztiogNs, " The tenderest Bard that c'cr impassioned sung." , After this frank confession, we may be allowed to suggest our hopes, perhaps, that there was no greater evil in translating CAMOENS than Loraz De VaGA ; especially, when it is considered that out of the Por tuguese, Lord STRANGFORD has formed a Most, delightful. Book, while.out of the Spanish, the Noble 'Lord, to whose endeavours. we are obliged, has fabri : i'mted'as heavy and 'uninteresting a performance as ever exercised the patience of the Public. But Lord HOLLAND is no 4 e Diplomatist." Pro bably; then, the Morning Chronicle may have heard of ei - Roactur ADAIR, now ; or lately,, Minister at the Court of Auatria. This hopeful Gentleman Was strongly suspeded of several attempts at poetry, before• Mr. Fox sent him to Vienna ; nay, before . 1 1gr, Fox dispatched him to St. Petersborgh, when his youth (here so bitterly objected to LOrd STRA NG ' ORD) must, if there be..any validity in 'such a charge, •have . .greatly militated against the delicate commission with which we all know that he was entrusted ! We are also inclined to hope that writing verses is not an inexpiable crime in a Secretary of Stare, even though be should chance to pres'ide. at the Foreign Otlice. The Morning Chronicle cannot hue ,forgotten' that Mr. Fox wrote verses ; nay, that he was proud of them. Very many good, and, as we are informed, very many wise men, have enter. rained doubt's as to the merits of Mr. Fox's politics : as to those of his poetry, there never w as b u t one !opinion. It seldom rose above the efforts of the 'contrittutors to those bundles of trash which afflict us monthly under the' name of Magazines. Unless, therefore, the Morning Chronicle be prepared to maintain that poetry is only venial in great men, in proportion to its worthlessness, we. believe that We may venture' to acq4it Mr, CANNING and Lord STRANGFUHD of the heaviest part of this charge. But 'Lord STRANGFORI3 is also guilty 'of poverty. "'His songs About blue eyes," says the Morning Chronicle, ‘i were not- profitable, and he was there fore compelled to embrace the diplentatic profes sion.'The times are happily changed since FAL , - t S . TAili led his ragamuffins through Coventry. The " younger sons.,of younger brothers" no longer take presi-money to enlist;, and' we' are truly gratified to find the riches of Lord ROBERT FITZGERALD thus established by implication. We cannot, hOwever, join altogether so cordially to the air of .superlority which' the latter assumes, in,the Morning Chronicle, over Lord STRANGVORD. Lord STRANGFORD is an Irish '"Viscottnt of . an ancient and'honourable family : he enjoys a title of many descents ; and may, per.; haps, be considered, in hill own country, as justified • in walking side by side with Lord ROBERT FITZGE ,HALD ; if he.. be, poor, ,as the Morning Chronicle af-- firnis, it is yet evident that his education has not been negleaecl ; and his attaiument3 seem to. announce -either great vigour in his own mind, or great care, in those to-whom ItiS youth was intrusted. The Morning Chronicle truly says, that " he was appointed, .abOut . four years ago, Secretary, to Lord it. virpEttio.D's Legation." Fuur year's ,ago, Lord SIDNiQUTLI was in Tower; and Mr.. CANNING has not been usually accounted tort partial to that No. blernan's political favoufites. Here Was, then; no evident bias on his mind, no interested'motive for , that kindness, Which, in the Paper before us, is made the subje6t of such intemperate abuse, in deed we have our doubts:whether Mr. CANNING ever 545 , Lord STRANOtbn previously to his late return from the Tagus : that he had no personal ac- quaintance.with him, we believe that we may yen= tore to lama. On theirruption of Mr. Fox and his party into power, Lord ROBERT FinoEPALD was first Mini ster at the Court of Portugal. His charafter (for we presume that he sat for it) is drawn, by the Morn• ing Chronicle, in colours somewhat different from those which he used in the daubing of " poor" Lord ST*ANGFORD'S A DIED of . imquestionable talents, of large and liberal views, of great resources within himself, of a .character at once bold and. dexterous, steady and conciliatory." As the affairs . of Portugal were becoming every hour more and more intricate and alarming, this " man'of large and liberal views, &c." . wrote home for leave of absence as soon as be heard of the ap pointmentsof his cousin Fox to the head of the Fo' reign Office. its cousin Fox granted his request, and in little More than two months from thi"Cbanice , of Ministers, Lord ROBERT was comfortably set down in London, leaving Lord S•taktrtiroav, « the. writer of songs about blue eyes," with the rank of Plenipotentiary at the Court of Lisbon: :This rank, the Morning Chronicle gravely informs ,. us, " was only to continue during Lord ROBERT FITZGERALD'S absence, so that, if he hart, returned, Lord STRANGFORD would have immediately fallen back into his place of Secretary." We had, at first, some difficulty to account fur the insertion of this : trite truism; but , vve now think it was meant 'as a' .kind of apology both for Lord IL Firzoza.tth and' Mr, Fox, the former for continuing to receive, And. the latter for continuing to pay, a . salary of five, thousanci.a year, .fOr services which could not . well be perforMed in street. If Lord ROBERT had returned, there Would have been nothing improper in this ; but Lord ROREAT‘ did not return, but very composedly took his seat in Parliament, and voted with Mr. Fox:. Merit so great was not lost upon that Gentienian, and .he dis covered, about this time, that he was not sufficient ly re' carded. He did not, indeed, venture to add to the regular'salary of five thousand a year, but upon looking ba„ek to the date of - Lord ROBERT'S appointment, he saw, with equal surprise and re gret, tbt his pay, some time before, .had not been altogether adequate to his deserts ; and, therefore, like a man of honour, satisfied at once his con science and his feelings, by giving him an order, as we understood at the 'time, fel' FOUR THOUSAND rouNbs!!! .~ Such a sum as this to Lord STRANGFORD' might have consoled him for the " unprofitable" return, of his songs about blue eyes ;" but " to the ends" of Lord ROBERT FITZGERALD, whose wealth is so insultingly eontraste4 with bis poverty, must have been 46 " As is the dew-drop, on the myrtle leaf, " To the grand sea." It serves to furnish, however, an Additional proof, if an additional pioof be wanted, of thausacred regard to economy which influenced all the nations of th* late Administration, when so liberal, not to say so a spirit aslVlr:Fmt was known to possess, could content itself with bestowing on so active a Minister, and so kind a relation, the paltry sum Of Foot Tuousawo Pouxos! ' Meanwhile dangers pressed upon Portugal : Go vernment took the alarm, and a Fleet under the command of Lord ST. VINCENT was diSpltelleci to the Tagtis. To promote the objeftof the Expedi tion it was necessary to have a Miniiter on the spot and%now. it was : that the, "man of large and liberal views, of great experience and weight among the MeMbers of the Portuguese Court,".flew 'with 'eager ness to his post.!--01i, no! he continued to reative 4 his hundred pounds a week in London, and tO vote with the Party ; while Lord HOWICK, on whom the mantle of Mr. Fox had . fallen, not content with a Plenipotentiary in Lisbon ; and an Ambassador. at. home, thought it necessary to burthen the Country witEz the additional' eXpence of an extra The issue of this disgraceful business is known. The - Admiral was bewildered, the Extra-minister' befooled, and the planners of the hopeful scheme only saved . from ,indelible shame and,confusion by the timely intervention of the Prussian War. We trust drat something ,will;yet be said on this head but ue muii return to our subjea. • When Providence interposed in favour of this de-• voted country; and by a temporary infiietion of madness on a meddling and mischievous Administrs. , (ion, rendered the driving of them from their seats a measure of the most imperious necessity, Lord • llontaT FITZGERALD NMI still in London, and still in the receipt of his salary ! It may yet excite . some surprise in our Readers, even after all they have seen, to learn that his first concern was---e9t to return to the Court of Lisbon, but to get his' leave of absence renewed ! Haa Mr. CANXING betri unhappily endued With a single partield of that rtipacious and vindiaivo spirit which i n fl u e nce d every adt of his itnmedia te predecessors in office, he would scarcely have afford-